So Sam Hurd is going to prison for several years. He will be costing taxpayers approx $40K/yr while someone else slides into Sam’s spot in the coke game. That guy will eventually land himself next to Sam (if he’s lucky). Or he’ll wind up dead. And the saga continues… The war on drugs is a colossal failure with no end in sight. The only winners are the private prison industry and the politicians who support them. The prison lobbyists legally bribe our lawmakers to write more laws and pass harsher sentencing guidelines which guarantee their prisons stay packed full. Our jails are way overcrowded with nonviolent drug offenders and they like it that way. The US has the highest rate of incarceration in the civilized world and it’s not slowing down. Follow the money. And the saga continues…